John Lennon: The John Lennon Anthology
Ian MacDonald, Uncut, December 1998
WE GET USED TO THE VOICE. THE SOUND of a largely self-educated, rawly-talented, troubled and often wildly erratic Englishman who, by means of the various world-changing media brought to us by the tentacle of electricity, became one of the foremost cultural fixtures of the final third of this century.
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